The MT Lowdown is a weekly digest that showcases a more personal side of Montana Free Press’ high-quality reporting while keeping you up to speed on the biggest news impacting Montanans. Want to see the MT Lowdown in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. For years, major school choice proposals floundered at the Montana Legislature, falling victim to opponents who worried they would divert limited funding from the state’s public schools. That changed last year, as the Republican-dominated 2023 Legislature passed proposals allowing charter schools and establishing publicly funded s...

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